Looking for a certain fish

vivioo7 · 02/01/2009, 05:25 PM

Someone had this fish in their build thread but I cant find it. Their setup had two tanks one on top of the other I think they were cubes but the bottom one had clams in it and the top one had sps. He had a red lionfish, the fish Im looking for, and I think a mandrain or something that I would have thought would be eatin by the lion.
The fish Im looking for I think was a wrasse, I think it had a cream colored background and bright green spots on it like a lepord wrasse. He said it ate sps polyps but he hoped he had enough that they could recover before getting picked on again. Can anyone remember this?

IFbettas · 02/01/2009, 05:39 PM

Makes me think of a filefish of some sort, except the one I'm thinking about that eats sps polyps is a blueish background with orange to yellow spots.

fishome25 · 02/01/2009, 05:42 PM

sounds like a harlequin filefish

vivioo7 · 02/01/2009, 09:12 PM

I think that is it, thanks

snorvich · 02/01/2009, 09:36 PM

Nice pictures. Those fish eat acropora polyps.

02/01/2009, 05:25 PM	#1
vivioo7 Registered Member Join Date: May 2008 Posts: 104	Looking for a certain fish Someone had this fish in their build thread but I cant find it. Their setup had two tanks one on top of the other I think they were cubes but the bottom one had clams in it and the top one had sps. He had a red lionfish, the fish Im looking for, and I think a mandrain or something that I would have thought would be eatin by the lion. The fish Im looking for I think was a wrasse, I think it had a cream colored background and bright green spots on it like a lepord wrasse. He said it ate sps polyps but he hoped he had enough that they could recover before getting picked on again. Can anyone remember this?

02/01/2009, 05:39 PM	#2
IFbettas Registered Member Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Woodridge, IL Posts: 1,953	Makes me think of a filefish of some sort, except the one I'm thinking about that eats sps polyps is a blueish background with orange to yellow spots. __________________ Current Tank Info: 180G SPS Dominant, 75 Gallon Sump/Fuge, 3x250w Reeflux 12k in Lumenbrights, Octo Extreme 250 Skimmer, Lots of flow

02/01/2009, 09:36 PM	#5
snorvich Team RC member Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Outlander Posts: 40,953 Blog Entries: 46	Nice pictures. Those fish eat acropora polyps. __________________ Warmest regards, ~Steve~

02/01/2009, 05:42 PM	#3
fishome25 Registered Member Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: long island Posts: 2,472	sounds like a harlequin filefish

02/01/2009, 09:12 PM	#4
vivioo7 Registered Member Join Date: May 2008 Posts: 104	I think that is it, thanks